KingAether
Eternal noob
So finally after many, many moons i got myself a wadkin AGS10" within my budget and within collection distance and i don't think i would ever expected so much for the money! 
So you all get another thread about them 
Later model fence, riving knife and guard, Crompton S10 breaking unit installed last year, extra long slide rails and original cast iron legs for extension table = a very happy me!
I will update more as i get it apart and cleaned up inside but here's pictures as it was before i took it out of the previous owners business.
Getting it loaded on that end was easy, for the first time in the last few years of building the workshop up someone already had it on a pallet, on a forklift ready to put it in the van but getting it out again was where the fun started. By the time a friend and I got back he was tired and grumpy, i was tired and hungry, it was dark and raining out and it was just the two of us. Luckily we found a pallet left out on my road and managed to slide the saw from the pallet it was on, onto the other that was propped up on the back bumper and slid it down and onto a wheel base. Thats not where the fun ended though, two vans where parked in the drive leading to my back gate so we had to roll it around them across 10-15ft of gravel and mud on worn-down 50mm plastic wheels.
thankfully that was the hard part over, i got it in the drive, took the wing tables and rails off and it slipped between the two sheds by a hairs width
A few things of the top of my head-
Could anyone with calipers and the extended slide bar/later fence measure the diameter please ? I want to buy a steel round and make myself a smaller one for day to day use but i'm not sure i trust my tape measure, it looks like 40mm but i want to make sure
Is there is a benefit to having a separate, specific breaking module over a vfd? I will put in a 2-3hp single phase motor if i have to but add a VFD to run this motor if possible and can then set the parameters to stop <10.. Considering it cost a fair amount more off the shelf a year ago than i paid for the saw its attached to i assume i'm missing something but also wouldn't mind selling it to recoup some cost...
A step further, if its considered worth keeping the break on even with a vfd but the motor isn't dual voltage, would it be worth getting a another 3hp 3ph motor and vfd or just pull it out for a single phase at that point; i really don't know if the break is a big addition or just a premium price because its necessary for H&S
Thank you for any help, ill keep the thread going as i get it into my workshop, cleaned up and into use
So you all get another thread about them Later model fence, riving knife and guard, Crompton S10 breaking unit installed last year, extra long slide rails and original cast iron legs for extension table = a very happy me!
I will update more as i get it apart and cleaned up inside but here's pictures as it was before i took it out of the previous owners business.
Getting it loaded on that end was easy, for the first time in the last few years of building the workshop up someone already had it on a pallet, on a forklift ready to put it in the van but getting it out again was where the fun started. By the time a friend and I got back he was tired and grumpy, i was tired and hungry, it was dark and raining out and it was just the two of us. Luckily we found a pallet left out on my road and managed to slide the saw from the pallet it was on, onto the other that was propped up on the back bumper and slid it down and onto a wheel base. Thats not where the fun ended though, two vans where parked in the drive leading to my back gate so we had to roll it around them across 10-15ft of gravel and mud on worn-down 50mm plastic wheels.
thankfully that was the hard part over, i got it in the drive, took the wing tables and rails off and it slipped between the two sheds by a hairs width
A few things of the top of my head-
Could anyone with calipers and the extended slide bar/later fence measure the diameter please ? I want to buy a steel round and make myself a smaller one for day to day use but i'm not sure i trust my tape measure, it looks like 40mm but i want to make sure
Is there is a benefit to having a separate, specific breaking module over a vfd? I will put in a 2-3hp single phase motor if i have to but add a VFD to run this motor if possible and can then set the parameters to stop <10.. Considering it cost a fair amount more off the shelf a year ago than i paid for the saw its attached to i assume i'm missing something but also wouldn't mind selling it to recoup some cost...
A step further, if its considered worth keeping the break on even with a vfd but the motor isn't dual voltage, would it be worth getting a another 3hp 3ph motor and vfd or just pull it out for a single phase at that point; i really don't know if the break is a big addition or just a premium price because its necessary for H&S
Thank you for any help, ill keep the thread going as i get it into my workshop, cleaned up and into use
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